September 27, 2006 I’ll be speaking to the Bioinformatics Journal Club about Nature Publishing Group‘s social bookmarking system ‘Connotea‘. The following links are a good start:

The site: http://www.connotea.org/

The source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/connotea

The paper: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html

Connotea is a free online reference management and social
bookmarking service for scientists created by Nature Publishing
Group. While somewhat experimental in nature, Connotea already
has a large and growing number of users, and is a real, fully
functioning service. The label ‘experimental’ is not meant to
imply that the service is any way ephemeral or esoteric, rather
that the concept of social bookmarking itself and the application
of that concept to reference management are both recent
developments. Connotea is under active development, and we are
still in the process of discovering how people will use it. In
addition to Connotea being a free and public service, the core code
is freely available under an open source license

Background: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

Context: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

(Note: PDF Slides available.)